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Date:      Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:35:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net>
To:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   "No buffer space" strikes again...
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.10.9910210731470.421-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.net>

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Greetings everyone,

I've written in about this a few times, but it seems to be a problem that
absolutely refuses to go away.  I co-admin 2 FreeBSD servers, one of which
hosts some pretty high-volume web sites.  Every 5-10 days, the machine has
to be rebooted, because messages like this start appearing in the logs:

Oct 21 07:07:32 manx proftpd[15912]: socket() failed in
 inet_create_connection(): No buffer space available
Oct 21 07:12:55 manx proftpd[16704]: socket() failed in
 inet_create_connection(): No buffer space available
Oct 21 07:12:56 manx proftpd[16703]: socket() failed in
 inet_create_connection(): No buffer space available
Oct 21 07:13:23 manx proftpd[16739]: socket() failed in
 inet_create_connection(): No buffer space available
Oct 21 07:13:30 manx proftpd[16750]: socket() failed in
 inet_create_connection(): No buffer space available

We're running 3.3-STABLE.  We used to use a 3Com 3C905 (Fast EtherLink XL)
ethernet card, but were told by some that these cards don't work
particularly well under FreeBSD.  So, we tried switching to an Intel
Pro/100+ ethernet card, but just ran into the same problem.

Does anyone have any suggestions of anything else to try, possibly a
different ethernet card, tweaks to the OS, patches...?  We're stumped.

Thanks in advance!

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